English Explanatory Dictionary

organ of Zuckerkandl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A chromaffin body derived from the neural crest located at the bifurcation of the aorta or at the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery. It may be the source of a paraganglioma.

Word forms

organ of Zuckerkandl organs of Zuckerkandl

Etymology

First described by Emil Zuckerkandl, a professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna, in 1901.

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